Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-16

i WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-In the Senate
to-day bills were introduced and referred
az follows: BY Mr.. Cali, to pro-
| nibit United States judges and courts
from authorizing the borrowing of money
no tne receivers of railroads and other
corporations beyond tie amount of their
annual net incomes, also to prohibit the
s,Dointment of such receivers without
Evidence of financial condition Of the
COMPANY. He moved their reference to
/ the committee on inter state commerce.
Other bills were introduced and
referred as follows:
By Mr George, to protect employees
and servants engaged in Interstate
commerce and in the territories and the
district Of Columbia.
By Mr.. Hosr, to extend the general
land and mining laws over the territory
n Alaska; also TO facilitate the settle
meat and develop the resources Of
Alaska, snd to open An overland CONNER
rial route between the United States,
asistic Russia and Japan.
By Mr. Coke, to limit the jurisdiction
t United States Circuit and District
courts.
The resolution offered some days ago
nv Mr.. Plumb was taken up directing the
lttorney-General TO Investigate the
issue of the patent to Mag
ms Swinson last October
IN connection with the manufacture OF
sugar from sorghum, and If found invalid
on any ground to begin suit to have the
patent cancelled, the point being that Mr..
Swinson was an employe of the Agricul-
vuhila making tho Nv
ueriments out of which the patent re-
suited,
After discussion by Messrs. Plumb,
Gray, Butler, Teller, George, Hawley,
10 the committee on patents was rejected
and the resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Butler offered q resolution which
wss adopted directing the judiciary COM
mittee TO inquire and report whether in
the present state OF the law the govern
meuE has the power or the Attorney G en-
ersl of the United States the authority to
institute judicial proceedings TO vacate @
pstens for an invention On any ground
whatever.
The Senate then took up the bill intro
dsced by Mr. Stewart LAST Monday to pro-
TluG IDE lIlt tscUS vi SOlA ltAAOhIC5 W
circulate as moneg and WAS addressed By
that Senator in explanation and support
of the bill. The purpose of the bill is to
slow the deposit at any n Mt or an assay
oEce of gold and silver bullion in quaint
ties not less than five ounces of gold or
eighty ounces of silver and receive receipts
therefor for coin certificates, which are to
be legal tender, to have the existing gold
R,a fnn lnh vzyhn rO-
ceived at the treasury, to have no gold
coined hereafter except as necessary to
redeem obligations expressly payable in
that coin, TO have the bullion received
under this act melted into bars and de-
posted in the treasury, and to repeal the
of the 2Ssh of February, 1873, re-
curing the coinage Of 100000 silver
dollars monthly. Referring to the de-
monetizstion of silver by Congress in
1878, Mr.. Stewart said that the act wss
done so secretly that even the President
of the United States was ignorant OF it
two years afterwsrd, when he sent q
special message to Congress recommend
ing the opening OF new minis to coin Sill
yer dollars SO as to be able to carry
cat the law to resume specie payments,
and of course when the President was
lSuOIant "a It's LuS OSStCtoAJ Va Viz AASoS
sry, who must have sent the special mes
sage, must also have been ignorant OF it,
and Congress itself was ignorant OF it. II
silver, he said, WAS made vslueless
throug "a being no longer used as money,
Its production would cease and
the failure to work the silver mines would
result in diminishing by one-thtrd the
product of gold which row comes from
silver ore, but the silver mining industry
prosecuted with intelligence and vigor
would furnish the world with gold and
silver keeping pace with the increase of
population. 1t would be criminal to
destroy one OF those metals for the pur-
pose Of beneftipg any favored class.
At the close of Mr.. Stewards remarks
the bill was referred to the committee on
hEsnce.
The Senate on motion Of Mr.. Spooner
them proceeded to executive business and
soon after adjourned till Monday.